New Bike Trail Signage
Follow the Blazes! Wayfinding on Baltimore's Gwynns Falls Trail is made easier for bikers by a system of directional markers at key points on the route. Urban trails have multiple intersections and trail crossings, and there never can be enough signs erected. Plus, bikers are frequently looking down to check the trail ahead of them, so makers on the pavement are often more effective. Find similar directional blazes on Baltimore's Jones Fall Trail, as well.
Trail Kiosk Signage
View the kiosk signs on the Trail or see them at the
links below.
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Gwynns Falls Park at I-70/Franklintown
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Leakin Park at the Crimea Estate
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Leakin Park at Winans Meadow
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Gwynns Falls Park at Windsor Mill Road
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Leon Day Park at Franklintown Road
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Gwynns Falls Park at Wilkens Avenue
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Gwynns Falls Park at Frederick Avenue
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Carroll Park at the Golf course
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Solo Gibbs Park at Henrietta Street
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Middle Branch Park at Waterview Avenue
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Middle Branch Park at Hanover Street
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Carroll Park at the Historic Pigtown Neighborhood
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Maryland Stadium Complex at Ostend and Warner Streets
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The Gwynns Falls - Baltimore Greenway to the Chesapeake Bay
, an informative book by W. Edward Orser with contributions
by Daniel Bain, Jack Breihan, Guy W. Hager, Eric Holcomb
and David Terry is available to enrich your experience
on the Trail.
Walkers and bikers on Baltimore’s Gwynns Falls Trail
experience much more than a recreation pathway through
2,000 acres of greenway stream and parkland. This book will
help all to better understand 400 years of change in
landscape and cultural heritage along the Gwynns Falls.
Over the course of time, the stream valley was treated as
a neglected backyard, and now is treasured as unique green
space. The Trail threads through seemingly pristine areas
of natural beauty as well as degraded former industrial
sites–some in the process of revitalization, others
in need of remediation. Along the route are 30 Baltimore
neighborhoods, some of them among the most affluent, some
the most economically stressed.
With 160 pages and 140 photographs, the chapters below make
the case that appreciation of the Gwynns Falls and its
watershed starts with a walk or bicycle ride along an
urban greenway and opens an opportunity to tell the stories
about this complex landscape. Some of the stories have left
indelible marks, others little trace. Some point to
accomplishment and promise, others to challenges and
obstacles. But to encounter the Gwynns Falls, this gateway
to the Chesapeake Bay, is to engage a rich historical record
and to become part of an unfolding chronicle so important to
the past and present of Baltimore, America’s cities,
and the nation.
How to purchase a book
You can purchase a copy of this book for $20 and proceeds
will help support the Gwynns Falls Trail Council. Place an
order by calling 410-448-5663, pick up a copy at
800 Wyman Park Drive, Suite 010, Baltimore, MD 21211, or send
a $25 check (includes $5 shipping) to the address above.
We know you will enjoy this book.
Table of Contents
- Preface
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Chapter 1 - Tributary of the Bay: The Water and the
Watershed, Past to Present
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Chapter 2 - Four Hundred Years Ago: Captain John Smith
Explores Baltimore’s Waterways
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Chapter 3 - Native People of the Chesapeake: Algonquians
and Susquehannocks
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Chapter 4 - Colonial Plantation Economy Along the Gwynns
Falls: The Carrolls and special focus on Land Records and
Early Landscapes in the Lower Gwynns Falls Watershed by
Daniel J. Bain
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Chapter 5 - Port of Baltimore: “ Queen City of the
Chesapeake”
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Chapter 6 - Harborside Neighborhoods: From Early Urban
Settlement to Urban Homesteading
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Chapter 7 - African American Heritage in Sharp-Leadenhall
by Eric Holcomb
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Chapter 8 - Baltimore’s First Economic Boom: Flour
Milling
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Chapter 9 - A Grist Mill Village: Franklintown
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Chapter 10 - From Flour Mills to Textile Mills: Dickeyville
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Chapter 11 - Roads and Bridges: Traversing the Gwynns Falls
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Chapter 12 - Making Tracks to the Interior: Railroads
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Chapter 13 - Industries on the Urban Periphery
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Chapter 14 - The Industrial Southwest
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Chapter 15 - Rowhouses for the Expanding City
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Chapter 16 - Streetcars: Conveyances for the First Commuters
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Chapter 17 - The Park Era and the Olmsted Vision
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Chapter 18 - The Gwynns Falls as a Stream Valley Park
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Chapter 19 - African Americans and the Struggle for Equality
and special focus on Reginald Lewis, Rosemont’s Native
Son by David Terry
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Chapter 20 - The Middle Branch’s Southern Shore
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Chapter 21 - Leakin Park: A Name Before a Place, a special
focus on Thomas Winans and the Crimea
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Chapter 22 - Cherry Hill: African American Community on the
Southside
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Chapter 23 - Baltimore’s Expressway Controversy
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Chapter 24 - Baseball Legends of the Gwynns Falls: Babe
Ruth, Leon Day, Al Kaline
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Chapter 25 - The Inner Harbor and Camden Yards
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Chapter 26 - Baltimore’s Parks for a New Century:
The Gwynns Falls Trail
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Greenways and Networks
We are very pleased that the Trail has been designated as part
of the
East Coast Greenway
and the
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
. We look forward to seeing you on the Trail soon. Please
come out end enjoy this wonderful environmental and
recreation resource.
While Supplies Last!
You may now buy Trail memorabilia by mail. Review the
selections below and send us your order details and check
/money order.
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Shipping costs: $2.50 per print/poster.
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Send your order details and check/money order to:
Gwynns Falls Trail Memorabilia
c/o Parks & People Foundation
800 Wyman Park Drive, Suite 010
Baltimore, MD 21211
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Press Releases
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Recent Articles
City Hauls Away Massive Amounts Of Trash In Gwynns
Run Stream Cleanup
CBS Baltimore - March 2013
Help Wildlife During National Trails Day
The Baltimore Sun - May 2009
Volunteers Clean Baltimore Parks
ABC News
Book records West Baltimore heritage, neighbors' devotion
to Gwynns Falls
The Baltimore Sun - August 2, 2008
Baltimore's Stream of History
The Examiner - July 23, 2008
Hikers, bikers get a new path
The Baltimore Sun - June 8, 2008
Take a walk on the wild side of Baltimore on Gwynns Falls
Trail
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network - October 2007
Tour du Parks captures the best of Baltimore
The Examiner - June 12, 2006
Trail Art exhibit encourages preservation
The Examiner - June 3, 2006
Bicycle Baltimore - hike History
The Baltimore Sun - June 4, 2005
Blazing a Trail to Renewal
Trust for Public Land - May 2005
A trail grows in Baltimore
The Baltimore Sun - June 16, 2003
Art, nature converging on trail
The Baltimore Sun - October 8, 2001
Baltimore greenway is on the right path Recreation: One of
the city's best-kept secrets, a surprisingly lush trail in
Leakin Park, is slated for expansion to Federal Hill by 2003.
The Baltimore Sun - September 15, 2001